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UK Targets Twitter and Blog Endorsements
krou writes "The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is cracking down on 'Twitter users and bloggers using their online presence to endorse products and companies without clearly stating their relationship with the brand.' They described such endorsements, including 'comments about services and products on blogs and microblogs such as Twitter,' as 'deceptive' under fair trading rules. While the US Federal Trade Commission already requires such endorsements to be labelled with 'ad' or 'spon,' the UK doesn't have any such requirement. In relation to this, the OFT has launched an investigation into Handpicked Media, because the OFT is 'insisting that it must clearly state when promotional comments have been paid for.'"
I've reported a few people who for instance, claim to be able to predict the future.
Be careful, if you claim that in public then they can sue you for libel. Sure you'll win probably but it'll cost you $200k or so. More if you lose or run out of money to defend yourself with.
Not in the case of 'psychics', even in Britain. These particular type of frauds have actually been recognised as such by the courts already and must declare that they provide their 'services' for entertainment value only and do not insinuate that they can actually tell the future. So the GP was reporting them for actually having broken the law, and it would be hard for them to sue them for saying something that the Courts themselves have already said by proxy.